PARGE©

Parametric Geocoding & Orthorectification for Airborne Optical Scanner Data

by ReSe Applications Schläpfer

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What's PARGE© ?

PARGE is the orthorectification and direct geocoding software for airborne optical scanner data. It performs an ortho-rectification (ie., direct geocoding) of the scanner imagery to a digital elevation model using high precision flight parameters such as GPS position and attitude angles. Using accurate digital elevation models and optional ground control points, the process is accurate to the sub-pixel level. The program is suited for the correction of all kinds of airborne scanner imagery and is optimized for airborne hyperspectral instruments. Directly supported sensors so far are: HyMap, Probe-1, AVIRIS, CASI, AISA (Eagle), MIVIS, Deadalus ATM, PHILLS, APEX, Samson, and HYSPEX.

Key Capabilities

The software offers these key advantages:

parametric geocoding & orthorectification,
a semi-automatic ground control point based boresight calibration procedure
optimisation for imaging spectroscopy (hyperspectral)
a workbench-style graphical user interface
open internal data format and programming interface
wide variety of resampling options
support for raw-geometry based processing chains
direct link to atmospheric correction package (ATCOR-4)
customer-oriented software customization